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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

11 September - Blogs I'm Following II

English: A protester holding a placard in Tahrir Square referring to Facebook and Twitter, acknowledging the role played by social media during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)CNN's 'anniversary' (Photo credit: James Sarmiento (old account))

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation launched the Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) in partnership with the National Institutes of Health in 2003 which, according to the GCGH website, is aimed at "creating new tools that can radically improve health in the developing world." So far, 45 grants totaling $458 million were awarded for research projects involving scientists in over 30 countries.1
But where has all the money actually gone? Towards developing and implementing water purification and sanitation systems? Or basic nutritional support aimed at optimizing immune function? How about providing shelter and medical facilities for the homeless? Not even close.
For example, a $100K grant was recently disbursed to Seth C. Kalichman, professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, for "Establishing an Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System," which intends to "establish an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing, and counteracting misinformation communication campaigns regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts." [emphasis added]
We can only wonder what organizations might be labeled as "misinformation communication campaigns" considering the fact that Bill Gates, in a Feb. 4th, 2011 interview on CNN with Sanjay Gupta said that "anti-vaccine groups "kill children."" Here is the full quote:

“So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.”

It is quite possible that any dissenting voice not in support of universal vaccination campaigns may be included in this type of "surveillance and alert system" as a potentially endangering the lives of others, i.e. "killing children." What is so ironic about the situation is that the Gates Foundation supported Polio Global Eradication Initiative may have resulted in over 47,500 cases of vaccine-induced paralysis in Indian children in 2011 alone, and which is twice as deadly as the wild-type polio it claimed to have put an end to officially on Jan. 11 2012.

*(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials made a public plea on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, for quick congressional action to extend a sweeping but controversial U.S. ...

*(Reuters) - The United States cautioned China and Japan against escalating a row over a group of islands that both nations claim, warning that tensions between the world's second and third-biggest econom...

*BARCELONA, Spain — More than a million people swamped Barcelona on Tuesday demanding independence for Catalonia from the rest of crisis-struck Spain, police said.* A human sea flooded the city, as Catal...

*Earth may not be the only inhabitable planet in the universe, new research has indicated. * * *Scientists have designed new models for testing whether a planet could support life by searching for evidenc...

*WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders dug in their heels on Tuesday against any quick deal to resolve a looming fiscal disaster before the election, even as a major ratings agency warned that it would downg...

Proving, as one wag on Twitter put it, that Romney has the support of 100% of the women he's put in his will, Ayn came along for Romney's disastrous non-Fox TV appearance. She told the *Meet the Press* vi...

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Because we watched this event with the same eyes? (And sensibility?) Talk about suborned reporting and the ongoing circus/clown comedy shows dominating the U.S. news media . . . wonder how long it will ...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck OFF THE COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:26 UTC Wednesday 12th September 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) SSW...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 47.9 km (29.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:38 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 259 km (160 miles) East of Kuril'sk, ...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 40 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:13:42 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 259 km (160 miles) East of Kuril'sk, Ru...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck NORTHEAST OF TAIWAN at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 21:57:34 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) East of Juifang, Ta...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS at a depth of 20.8 km (12.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:52:06 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 213 km (132 miles) Southw...

** *An American is reported killed in an attack on a US consulate in Libya over a film that is said to insult the Prophet Mohammed.* A US official has been killed and others wounded in Libya as an armed mo...

Anthony Freda Art Nicholas West It is always a good idea to prepare for reasonably common events such as natural disasters, large climate events like drought, and generally to be as self-sufficient as p...

Source of photo: *Samad Ghorbanzadeh*. From the series "Fictional Reality" and "Gray Nightmares." "I think the world increasingly will understand that what we have here are a group of barbarians, tha...

Lisa Garber Prevention is key with natural health solutions, although we firmly believe that anyone can beat cancer with nutrition. It is said that at least half of all cancer cases can be prevented t...

Susanne Posel, *Contributor* In August, Brian Loftus, commercial fisherman and member of Oathkeepers, was harassed by local police for purchasing “a few boxes of ammunition.” The local shop keeper con...

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Dees Illustration Paul Craig Roberts, *Contributor* The article below was written for the Journal of 9/11 Studies for the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, the day that terminated accountable ...

image source Michael Snyder, *Contributor* Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams. But what most of those fresh-faced...

Susanne Posel, *Contributor* Lakhdar Brahimi, member of the UN Arab League envoy, will speak with the Syrian government. Brahimi stated in Cairo: I answer to no one except the Syrian people. Syrians a...

Wikimedia Commons Madison Ruppert, *Contributor* U.S. Army documents which were recently declassified prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the United States helped cover up the slaughter of 22,000 pol...

Gaye Levy, *Contributor* Everyone needs a knife sharpener because no matter how careful you are, when you use your knife in the field, it is going to get dull. I don’t care how expensive, or how high ...

Lisa Garber A researcher in Vancouver found that vaccinated subjects in an animal study displayed worsened H1N1 symptoms and became much sicker when exposed to the H1N1 virus. Dr. Danuta Skowronski i...

Christopher Brigham Amanda Warren Despite its faults and what it is typically used for, we have to admit that genetic modification is quite an advancement. Can it be corralled to help mankind, similar t...

*Activist Post* GM insect company Oxitec today published results of its trials of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands in 2010 (1). The results were originally submitted to the jour...

Art from poster for the 7th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies at Wayne State University. The decline of American public purpose We must unite to save our citizenship, our public space, and our human...

Monday, September 10, 2012 Portal 2012 in Egypt We will be having the main activation of Portal 2012 in Egypt. On December 21st, our group inside the Great Pyramid will be one of many groups through...

Sheldan Nidle - September 11, 2012 September 11, 2012 4 Cauac, 7 Zip, 9 Eb Dratzo! We come today to give you a message. This message is about the coming transformation of your world. At present, a nu...

"Which part of this picture do you find more interesting- the land or the sky? Advocates for the land might cite the beauty of the ancient domes of the Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia. These pict...

"I think the world increasingly will understand that what we have here are a group of barbarians, that they threaten all of us. . . It's an attack not just upon the United States, but upon civilized societ...

*Has anyone every been less entitled to a say in our national security?* *by Ken* Last night I announced an overall subject for that post and tonight's, "9/11 and the case for reality." Part 1 dealt with ...

*“The Ring of Truth”* by Chet Raymo "In Salley Vickers' novel, "Where Three Roads Meet", the shade of Tiresias, the blind seer of the Oedipus myth, visits Sigmund Freud in London during the psychoanal...

Eleven years have passed since the criminal state of Israel, along with its useful minions and idiots in the US Government, committed the most heinous and murderous act of cold blooded murder on American s...

Back to school! Image from Power Line. Back to school in the twilight of capitalism The combination of high costs, a smaller job market, and decreasing financial assistance has made postsecondary educatio...

*"Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"* by Mark Twain "For example, in Year 1 that useless letter 'c' would be dropped to be replased either by 'k' or 's', and likewise 'x' would no longer b...

At multilateral "Meetings of States Parties (MSP)" conferences, delegates are there to review progress made since the establishment of some treaty standard or another - in this case the Convention on Clus...

I haven't been following this closely, so I don't know any of the particulars. But one thing I know for certain is, Paul Ryan is lying when he pretends to be concerned with "the children." “We stand with...

*"Petrus and Good Combat"* by Paulo Coelho "In 1986, I went for the first and only time on the pilgrimage known as the Way to Santiago, an experience I described in my first book. We had just finishe...

*Source: (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid). * A Muslim Brotherhood-directed mob took down and ripped apart the American flag at the American embassy in Cairo on the 11th anniversary of the false flag 9/11 ...

*"What We Want"* "What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names- now they want us. But what we want appears in ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making it clear that Israel will not wait to take out Iranian nuclear facilities. In heated comments toward the United States, the Israeli prime minister said that it...

The single-best tribute I’ve seen, in just thirteen words: Some of us witnessed. Some of us understood. Some of us still remember. [From Jason Roth, at Save the Humans. Thanks Jason.] Content is copyrigh...

Dealing with an apparent mild case of food poisoning and some critical errands today so slow blogging. Finally feeling well enough to check out the news. While I'm doing that, found this cartoon on the Fac...

The commentariat is all a-twitter this morning about the Social Welfare Minister* imposing sanctions on beneficiaries *if* they don’t send their kids to the doctor and along the road to learn finger-pain...

Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insu...

An armed mob has attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi and set fire to the building, witnesses reported, in what they said was a protest at a film they said offended Islam. A little ea...

*And if she cries, well then you’ll know that your plan is full of holes ~moosedenied** * *~Welp, so much for that. Back to the drawing board. The time to panic has come. We must now move forward and turn ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF PANAMA at a depth of 16.8 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:24:59 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) South of Punta de Bu...

[image: image]*Guest post by Daniel Wahl of The Purposeful Reader.* Being a pirate in the early 1700s wasn’t easy. There were storms to worry about, flying cannonballs in the midst of sea fights and, if ...

*-by Noah* There used to be a game show on TV called *To Tell The Truth*. On it a panel of celebrities, writers, and columnists would fire questions at three contestants, trying to determine which one...

*A significant quantity of radioactive cesium, likely from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has turned up in subsea mud about 200 kilometers away, near the mouth of the Shinanogawa River ...

*BEIJING - One person in Southwest China's Sichuan province died of plague on Sept 7, the Ministry of Health said Monday.* The case was reported in Cunge township, Litang county, Garze Tibetan autonomous...

*A rare superbug first linked to travel to India has been found in a 78-year-old Burmese man who died of pneumonia, the Centre for Health Protection revealed yesterday.* The man, a Hong Kong resident who ...

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes". Learn the facts, not the official fairy tale; decide t...

*RICHLAND, Wash. -- The Department of Energy has found evidence that a tank at the**maybe leaking radioactive material.* The Tri-City Herald reports that more unknown material has been found in a third p...

*BARCELONA, Spain — More than a million people swamped Barcelona on Tuesday demanding independence for Catalonia from the rest of crisis-struck Spain, police said.* A human sea flooded the city, as Catal...

*Factory blazes in two of Pakistan's major cities have killed 39 people and injured dozens more, including some who leapt from the burning buildings to escape the flames.* First a fire swept through a sh...

*JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama will not receive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the US later this month, both sides said on Tuesday, amid growing tensions between the al...

*Benjamin Netanyahu is a crazy monster, not a rational statesman. Related: Netanyahu Is A Demon From Hell.* "(Reuters) - The White House has rejected a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to m...

Since Ronald Reagan ushered in government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, American blue and white-collar wage earners have seen their incomes stagnate - at least the lucky ones that is. Despit...

Kay van de Linde, one of Holland’s most seasoned political strategists, did not see it coming: The few seconds on Dutch television late last month which turned the country’s election campaign upside down....

*China promises to 'safeguard territorial integrity' after Japan buys disputed islands in East China Sea* A territorial dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea has i...

My nephew sent me this photo a December 6, 1993 article in the UK's Independent newspaper. Interesting how Osama Bin Laden was the once the darling and hero of the West? "On the road to peace"? Via w...

The White House declined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request on Tuesday to meet U.S. President Barack Obama during a UN conference in New York at the end of the month. An official in Jeru...

Of course, no one who lived through it will ever forget that horrifying day. I was a mess for three days after and I wasn't even in New York. But I remember the shock. I remember the fear for the safety o...

At Greg's place today, I noted that with his convention bump Barack Obama remains basically just a tick behind George W. Bush at this point in 2004 in approval ratings -- which is where he's been since Apr...

The *Interaction Council*, a body comprising mainly former government leaders, warns that the world is facing a serious water crisis that threatens global peace, political stability and economic developmen...

*A man's body has been found at the Marikana mine, which is at the centre of a mining pay dispute in South Africa.* The discovery was made by journalists at the site. The body had two deep cuts to the ba...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS at a depth of 3.4 km (2.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:49 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) Southwes...

President of the AFT, Randi Weingarten, emerged today with a statement to the New York Times that feeds that vitriol that corporate ed deformers are trying to promote against Chicago teachers: “You have ...

Egyptian demonstrators climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today and pulled down the American flag to protest a film they say is insulting to the prophet Mohammad. Update at 2:07 p.m. ET: CNN ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:21:35 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 280 km (74 miles) Southwest fro...

What the whistler whistles. [September 5, 2012] Woodworth maintains that M-312 is not about abortion but fact-finding, and that Parliament should act on whatever evidence was presented by medical and sc...

We now know that 9/11 was an inside job, a false flag operation just as the 2008 Financial Meltdown was a cabal orchestrated global market manipulation event. The evil plan was to push oil prices from ...

So, this connects to a European research project on hate crime policy that I'm in, called *When Law and Hate Collide*, and that I have been posting about before, here, here and here. I have also linked to ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 19 km (11.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:30 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) South of Sid...

Questions have been raised by Le Dauphine about the scene found by the English cyclist, a former RAF man. The English cyclist found seven-year-old Zainab al-Hilli lying in the road. "The English cyclist...

Some people believe that the the BBC and other left-wing media are actively in cahoots with Islamists. This Telegraph report puts forward an alternative explanation, fear of violence. 'Channel 4 cancels I...

*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012* *Who is Margaret Sullivan:* Margaret Sullivan has just taken over as the New York Times’ new public editor. We'll admit it! We were unfavorably struck by one part of her fir...

Do watch the interview with Alan (not Allen) Sabrowsky, note that it's with Iran's Press TV and that Alan Sabrowsky is reported to have said that "Americans must understand that they did it. And if they ...

The CBC report on terrible problems in public housing in Vancouver's core is worth reading here. It's shameful for government to be a slum landlord, taking 57 per cent of people's income for dirty, dangero...

Another safely retired Canadian general with too much time on his hands, Lewis MacKenzie, is fronting for a group urging the feds to scrap the F-35, first-strike, stealth light bomber in favour of resurrec...

Am just glancing through the CBC bits on the change of senior leadership in the Canadian Forces as the last of the Afghanistan era Chiefs of the Defence staff retires. But the outgoing chief of the defence ...

A strong rotten egg smell had Southern Californians plugging their noses and crying foul Monday as air quality investigators scrambled to determine if the sulfurous scent was coming from the Salton Sea. ...

Farmers in the United States and Russia are reeling. Now it's Australia, the world's second biggest wheat producer, where production is in peril. *Lower production in Australia, the world’s second-larg...

Hey, I have a new article in the new Washington Monthly all about party networks, campaigns, and presidencies. Or, if you want the stuff that people other than myself are interested in: it's about how we k...

Image from: http://hub.pastbook.com/en/book/instagram/earth/tag/september11Our memories of "big events" are generally collective in character. Their status as such manifests in a number of ways, but an im...

Far, far away, on the misty frontiers of knowledge, dwells a small and widely scattered clan of clear thinkers who live with their eyes wide open, their minds always set to the “on” position, and their pow...

*Imposimato* Judge Ferdinando Imposimato has stated publicly in writing that 9/11 was just like the CIA's 'strategy of tension' carried out in Italy. Imposimato, the Honorary President of Italy's Supreme...

Elliot Astur worked with Lee Rogers to put that video together. I think you'll enjoy hearing the song; give it a look. It's one way for Rogers to show voters in his Santa Clarita, Antelope Valley, Simi V...

*The Guardian* has published a photo essay of the 100-most endangered species at risk today. If you look at these creatures most may appear insignificant, hardly worth bothering about. That is if you d...

Here is another one that is guaranteed to make you want to hurl. Especially if your a Canadian! But, not solely if your a Canadian, because these type of gratuitous "awards" are given to many leaders for t...

Three people have been found shot dead in a car on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The bodies were discovered in a village near the town of Corte in the north of the island, which has suffered three...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.” “It...

It's estimated that the global fishing fleet is more than twice what would be needed to completely fish out the world's oceans. As fish stocks collapse in one place or another, larger, ocean-ranging vess...

A while ago, I made the hard decision to extend credit where it was due. I don't like conceding things to my enemies but I don't think we should refuse to acknowledge and reward good behaviour either. S...

When I was taught classical history at school, I was told that the Roman Empire and Western civilisation was destroyed by the barbarian tribes of Germany and central Asia who, during the fourth and fifth c...

*One of our die-hard readers, MrPops, wanted to extend the following comment and invitation:* This is a great one! If you are on the fence, or sure 9/11 was not an inside job, just give this a watch. Fe...

*Death Angel(ina) Jolie, CFR member, is at it again. * The UN "goodwill" Ambassador is repeating, her starring role in the war/killing/psycho/death destruction machine. This time she is touring 'refugee'...

Think Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh. Now think Palestinian Authority/West Bank and Hamas/Gaza splitting up. This little jaw dropper seems to be in the works with Hamas, a charter branch ...

Wall Street Journal Sep 10, 2012 p. A3 by A. Morse [Excerpted] "The U.S. Department of Energy is slowing construction of a facility to process the country's largest accumulation of radioactive waste ami...

This ego is a construct of this dimension. It is true that your personality remains with you always – you are who you are – yet your personality is not your ego. The essence of you (your personality...

*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012* *When Gregory caves, that’s news:* Since it was Sunday, it was Meet the Press. Since Mitt Romney was the guest, he offered a slippery groaner. He seemed to say that he woul...

OWEN GRAY'S NORTHERN REFLECTIONS has a post you should ponder, with links to a disturbing article by the Toronto Star's Richard Gwyn, and the Tax Justice Network. An important and quite stunning study ha...

In another shocking example of how the federal government is repositioning itself as a secret police force to target political dissidents, a 16-year-old boy was questioned by FBI agents over a You Tube v...

[image: Drought at the Hoover Dam, 31 August 2012. Water managers across the U.S. are scrambling for ways to produce the same amount of power from the hydroelectric grid with less water, including from b...

Pinterest fever is alive and well. I spend just as much time on Pinterest as the next addict. I love scrolling through the ideas, quotes, geeky moments and (usually) wonderful recipes. I pin a little bi...

I was planning on spending the final few weeks of my summer reading, and blogging the remainder of my notes from Marxism 2012. That all changed when the Rivera family was ordered to leave Canada by Septemb...

I am looking to hire a Harvard student to work with me as I revise my principles textbook (along with several other less time-consuming tasks). The part-time job requires strong writing/editing skills, the...

(*Editor's note: Quite often, for some reason, I get emailed to me articles by Franklin Lamb, a former Democratic National Committeeman. With one possible exception, I've never paid them much mind, not be...

*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012* *Part 1—Who is Joe Nocera:* In this morning’s New York Times, Joe Nocera talks about schools. More specifically, he talks about the teachers strike in Chicago. Joe Nocera is...

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*HT to Stan Karp:* * * *Today’s Washington Post Answer Sheet column includes the latest in a series of posts and exchanges about the Broad Foundation’s education “reform” efforts in NJ and across the nati...

*Activist Post* As we remember the horrific events of 9-11 on this 11th anniversary, it's an excellent opportunity to remind people that many unanswered questions remain about the day that changed ever...

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Happy Birthday to Ludacris, 35. On to the good stuff: 1. Excellent summary of some of the public opinion literature from Dylan Matthews, using as a hook a new poll finding many Republican voters were wi...

*New Orleans City Council demands report on power company's operations before and after Isaac ~Gambit* *Let’s talk a bit more about Aaron Broussard’s “evidence of other crimes” ~Slabbed* *Mississippi pus...

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*(Reuters) - Yemen's defense minister escaped an assassination attempt on Tuesday but the car bomb that targeted his motorcade killed at least five bodyguards, government sources said.* Witnesses said th...

*The attack, which took place at around 10 pm local time on Monday, came on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Security across the capital, Kabul, was intensified.* Two personne...

*(Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble questioned on Tuesday how the United States could deal with its high levels of government debt after November's presidential election.* In a speech...

Two weeks ago, Ann Romney told Republicans that she and Mitt had known lean times: “We were very young. Both still in college. There were many reasons to delay marriage, and you know what? We just didn...

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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the GREENLAND SEA at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:15:56 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 1017 km (632 miles) Northwest from Mur...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck MYANMAR at a depth of 42.2 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:09:46 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) North of Mawlaik, Myanmar No T...

“About 500 people in Britain become Muslim every day. “The Home Office say there are 1.5million Muslims but there were 1.5million ten years ago. Since then our brothers in Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:46 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) South of Si...

*A tour coach returning from the Bestival festival has crashed in Surrey, leaving three people dead and all 50 survivors injured.* A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust said:...

LEAH MCGRATH GOODMAN "I was detained, questioned and banned from the United Kingdom in the wake of research for my next book in the Channel Islands." *Anarchy In The UK? - Leah McGrath Goodman* *Haut d...

*Candida overgrowth* You may have noticed that the blogging frequency decreased during the last week or so. So did my life expectancy: with the right definition, it dropped nearly 100% over the same wee...

Corbett Report Joining us tonight are Dr. Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network and Kimberly Kaminski of Oregon Citizens for Safe Drinking Water to talk about the current drive to add fluoride to th...

*"The State of Things"* by Arthur Silber "For those of us favored by Providence to live in the freest, noblest, bestest ever country in this best of all possible worlds, here is how things stand. The...

*“Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality”* by Gar Smith “America is currently engaged in the most expensive presidential contest in world history. In the United States, money doesn’t just talk...

AntiWar Jason Ditz Russian officials are hoping to see the UN Security Council agree soon to a new peace resolution for Syria, based on a plan negotiated in Geneva in June. If Secretary of State Hillary C...

Yahoo News Eric Pfieffer Two brothers who shot and killed a sheriff's deputy have placed photos of the slain lawman outside the entrance of their farm, calling it a "warning" to other law enforcement...

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*Perfect Paella!* As I have probably mentioned before, I love the spice Saffron! So really most dishes that contain it tend to tickle my fancy ;) This one especially. The mixture between shrimp, scallops,...

Boris's speech at the end of the Olympic victory parade yesterday. Brilliant - just funny and real, a good orator and great lines - "you produced such paroxysms of tears and joy on the sofas of Britain, ...

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*New mainframe models suggest there could be many more habitable planets out there than formerly thought. The research was opened at the British Science carnival in Aberdeen.* Scientists have developed m...

In 2008 Barack Obama said he'd visited 57 states so far... The BBC and other Obama supporting media barely noticed the mistake. Then it was the difference between 50 and 60. Today I note that Barack Obam...

*Reader John sent me this, watch the gun magically appear in the shooters hand out of nowhere! You have to watch it closely, and may have to play it a couple of times. I'm going to see if my brother the...

The winds of change are beginning to pick up. Michael channeled by Ron Head September 9, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages | Today let us advise you that the portal opening is successful and you are ha...

*'Cashing in': Gary Giordano (left), the sole suspect in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner in Aruba, has filed a lawsuit to claim $3.5 million in a life insurance policy he took out on her before the tri...

Reader Les sent this to me today: The dirty deeds and desperations of the rich and powerful - poignantly brought to the screen in the timely and compelling Arbitrage. Opens Friday. When we first mee...

*A mayor in New Jersey's capital city is in some legal hot water after he was taken away in handcuffs by the FBI following a massive corruption probe focused on his office.* Tony Mack, the mayor of Trent...

*Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the West of deliberately destroying rain clouds headed for Iran as part of efforts to plunge the country into drought. * The Iranian president's latest outburst came as h...

*A businessman suspected of gunning down an officer who visited his home trying to help him was found dead on Monday evening after a day-long standoff with police.* A search team entered Ricky Coley's ho...

Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good Food movement that's taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Introducing a diverse cast of extr...

*Short-term stress, the fight-or-flight response, stimulates immune activity, says Professor Firdaus Dhabhar.* According to researchers at Stanford University in the USA, short bursts of stress can be go...

*Southern California was plagued with a strong smell of rotten eggs on Monday, leaving officials scrambling to discover the source of the unpleasant phenomenon.* Investigators from the South Coast Air Qu...

Thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com were down for several hours on Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service. A Twitter feed that clai...

* A Somali benefits cheat has been spared jail because the judge sentencing him said the cost of locking him up for a year would be the same as the amount he swindled.* Karmal Mustafa dishonestly claimed...

*A stowaway fell thousands of feet from a plane on to a quiet suburban street after apparently hiding in the landing gear.* * *The body of the victim, in his thirties and from North Africa, was discovered...

*“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this* *ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”* *~ Albert Einstein (after Gandhi’s 1948 assassination)* Since 9/11/2001, many peo...

no, 9/11 will not go away, and this is the ELEVENTH YEAR THAT NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE to the *real perpetrators* of the Patriot Act-instigating corporate cyber event, intended navy coup and mainstream media ...

*France has come under fire from the United Nations' human rights commisssioner over its treatment of Roma gipsies.* While criticising countries such as Syria and Bahrain, Navi Pillay also singled out th...

*The jailed Pakistani doctor who helped led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout has revealed that Pakistan’s spy agency considers America its worst enemy.* Dr Shakil Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in...

*A judge re-ignited the row over soft sentencing yesterday after allowing a rioter who hurled rocks at the police and helped to set a car ablaze to walk free.* Judge Nigel Seed said Nooragha Zadran had s...

*The shocking scale of tax dodging in Greece was laid bare yesterday in a report showing that professionals are among the worst offenders.* The study found that self-employed Greeks evaded a staggering £2...

Number of years since the attacks: 11 Number of Muslim hijackers: 19 Number of airplanes hijacked: 4 Number of intended targets: 4 Number of targets struck: 3 Number of murder victims: 2,977 Estimate...

Parents Support Labeling Did you know??? 90% of mothers and 88% of fathers favor requiring labels for foods that have been genetically engineered or contain genetically engineered ingredients. That’s an ...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA at a depth of 108.6 km (67.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:35:37 UTC Tuesday 11th September 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11 miles) South of Caucete...

I was right! Well done Andy Murray. I only watched the first set last night as needed a good night's sleep but that was exciting enough. Also the power those two guys put on the ball and the levels of fit...

In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss uncertain futures for banks in Italy and business purgatory for citizens unable to retire in America. They discuss Monte dei Paschi Bank in Italy, ...

*On September 11, 2001, Washington and Al-Qaeda were full-blown enemies, but 11 years later they are allies in Syria.* Washington's *covert alliance* with Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria proves that the...

I just returned from a family visit in San Francisco. Sadly, my uncle recently died from throat cancer. Despite the sad reason for my visit, I enjoyed seeing my family clan, all of whom are originally fr...

*The smartly dressed elderly man tilted his head back, opened his mouth, and lowered a raw slimy fish down the back of his throat.* The women running the herring counter at Dordrecht market were doing a ...

*A high-ranking visitor delivered a stern message from British PM David Cameron against an uncoordinated Israeli strike on Iran at this time. * A special envoy from the British government came to Israel a...

*TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet formally announced Tuesday that the government will purchase several disputed islands that China also claims — a move that Beijing said would bring “serious consequences.”* Chief...

*US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the Taliban says ahead of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.* Eleven years ago...

*BEIJING — The strange disappearance from public view of China’s presumptive new leader is turning a year that was supposed to showcase the Communist Party’s stability into something of an annus horribili...

*The government has shelved plans to scrap compensation payments to victims of minor criminal assaults in Britain.* The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) had wanted to restrict payments from the Criminal Injuries...

I'm reading Chris Hayes' spectacular new book now, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. I'm only partially finished but so far he hasn't mentioned Bolivia. Brazil and Argentina, yes... but ...

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